Not to mention the allegations of match fixing. As a massive college football (American) fan, every outcome that someone doesn't like is questioned on every forum as "the refs had a bet on it" or whatever.
Of course they are. They're also doing things like offering big sign up incentives with long play-through requirements (you know, the "200 in bonus bets when you deposit $5" thing) to try to get people to download it, gamble a bunch, and become addicts. Some people play it through, take the $20 thats left, and they're done. But some people start playing more regularly. Its all extraordinarily predatory and I'm pissed off every time I see a PrizePicks billboard on my commute. This stuff shouldn't even be legal.
I find that it is exceptionally bad with sports. I don't really want to google anything about the Texas A&M Aggies at the moment, but when I did, it would regularly hallucinate scores, hallucinate opponents, get the locations of games wrong, confuse A&M's quarterback with someone else, etc. Maybe its better in other domains; I don't know, I mostly don't even use Google these days, pretty much entirely because I want to avoid the AI Overview, which is just wrong way too often to be the first result.
They're capable of escaping containment because headlines are good for their investors. And we don't get to see the prompts but who knows what kind of nudging is being done to get these results.
As much as you're right, the attitude in most software development is not "lets make this as secure as reasonable," it is "lets make this barely functional and then move onto the next thing."
My current phone is definitely flagship for the time, ~$850, and I will be holding onto it as long as I can because flagships, with headphone jacks, available in the US, are something that just does not exist anymore, and I'm not spending $1500+ to import the cheapest Xperia only to have it barely work on my cell network.
I think that last thing is key. The authors of these things published them with the express intent that other people would read them. Not that they would be used as training data.
Sign in with a QR code is dangerous though because at that point theres very little stopping QR phishing and forwarding the bluetooth request to your browser. See the most common Discord scam.
Amazon does benefit from increased account security; they don't have to refund non-fraudulent orders after all. For most people, a passkey is genuinely more secure.
I don't like passkeys either (I use a password manager anyway, and long secure unique passwords), but I understand the need. But yeah it really annoys me when every website wants to give me a passkey, or wants me to use a passkey, instead of just taking me to a page where I can enter my novel-length password.
Everything gets broken eventually. Every Nintendo console except the switch 2 is wide open. Even the "unbreakable" Xbox consoles were broken with Damage Control. Anything worth breaking will be broken, eventually, whether in software or by a mod chip.
But honestly, why do that when there's already a good, open-source(ish), well-designed, highly secure operating system platform that already runs Android apps? Any new clean sheet OS is either going to be worse than Android on one or more of these dimensions, or it will be absurdly expensive to vibe code.
Come on, you know what I meant. You don't need to aggressively and intentionally misinterpret my point to make yours. I trust the company with whom I store my money to generate attestations of my age without leaking additional information more than I trust the company who has stolen every piece of human text ever written to train their chatbot.
Yeah this is something thats bothered me a lot recently. I'll ask "How did team A beat team B by so much?" and Claude will tell me "Actually, team B didn't win; team A won that game." I don't know how they got this thing to solve open math problems when it can't solve basic sports talk.
The fact that those models are encroaching on things only human minds could do. Personally, as a human, I want there to be things humans are the best at, and intellectual things were the final thing that machines hadn't beaten us at.
Or we could use multiple relays so nobody knows both the bank and the purpose, or even who would know the other piece of data... and now thats just Tor but for identity verification. Might be a good idea actually, except the whole point is Anthropic wants to know who you are.
The problem is people don't buy small phones. ASUS' Zenfone 9 and 10 were, in my opinion, basically perfect; small, someting I can actually hold in my non-athletic hands, but they didn't sell well at all, and ASUS abandoned the small phone market entirely with the Zenfone 11 Ultra.
I've used adblockers, revanced, and whatever else for years, so I don't see many ads, but every time I'm on a computer without this stuff installed I am appalled by how many scams get through. At some point, Google must have realized that nobody is going to come after them for selling ad space to scammers (possibly because of section 230 of the CDA?) and hey, scammers are willing to pay enough for it to be worth it.